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Excursions into the otherwise. Interviews, reviews and discussion of our strange and estranged relationship to landscape.
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An interview with designer David Knight about 'plotlands' communities in the UK and the work of anarchist writer Colin Ward.
David's practice is DK-CM, and the book Mutual Aid, Everyday Anarchism: Essays on Colin Ward is from Five Leaves Publishing.
Music by Asher Levitas from his album Peripheral Lands.
I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-Tees and in Leeds.
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
An interview with folk duo Stick in the Wheel about their recent album A Thousand Pokes, a kind of psychogeographic dig into London through folk song.
Check out Stick in the Wheel at their website, including tour dates, and get A Thousand Pokes from Bandcamp.
I (Justin) am doing my show The Great Satanic Swindle in April, with dates in Stockton-on-Tees and in Leeds.
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
An interview with Elizabeth Bennett about her new book, Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape, Repertoire.
Find Elizabeth on Instagram and find the book via Bloomsbury.
The music in this episode is from the new album by Stick in the Wheel, A Thousand Pokes, available from their Bandcamp.
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Laura Cannell is a musician based in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Her work combines experimental, folk, early and medieval music, as well as a number of unique and rare techniques.
Her website is https://lauracannell.com/ where you can find out about recordings and gigs, or you can visit her Brawl Records bandcamp site to check out music and buy recordings.
The music in this episode is from Laura's recent 'Lore' series, available through the bandcamp site.
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
An interview by Justin Hopper with James Canton.
James Canton is a writer and educator; the author of books including Ancient Wonderings, The Oak Papers, and Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors.
His website is https://jamescanton.co.uk/
He is also active on Instagram.
The music in this episode is Leaves Rustle and the Wind in my Hair by Pefkin, from the album Observations on Land and Sea, available from Pefkin's bandcamp page.
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
An interview by Justin Hopper with Cheryl E. Leonard.
Cheryl E. Leonard is a musician, sound artist and composer who lives in Northern California and works there - or in Antarctice, or Scotland, or Scandinavia... Her practice of making compositions 'of' and 'with' place combines field recordings with music made from original instruments built from natural objects.
Her website is https://allwaysnorth.com/ and she's also on Instagram.
Her album Antarctica: Music from the Ice is available from Bandcamp: https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antarctica-music-from-the-ice
A new release just out is Littoral: https://ruralsituationism.bandcamp.com/album/littoral
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
For this special episode, I walked on the South Downs with Jim Jupp of Belbury Poly and Ghost Box Records, discussing the latest BP album The Path.
Good friend of the podcast Jim Jupp recently released a new album under his Belbury Poly name, and through Ghost Box, the record label he co-founded with artist/designer Julian House.
Rather than a solo piece, however, this one involves a 'band' setting augmenting his synths and obsessions with library-music inspired claustrophobic soundtrack-funk, plus my own contribution as narrator, telling a vague tale of a walker descending into madness on the uncanny paths of England.
We walked and talked at the end of the summer, and here 'tis...
Check out Belbury Poly's The Path through all the normal record-shopping and streaming spots, and Ghost Box Records' own shoppe. The music is, obviously, also from that album. BP did the Uncanny Landscapes title theme, too...
Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack - it's free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram.
[[Caveat: there were technical issues with this episode; I think I've solved most of them, but apologies for weird stuff that may haunt the ep!]]
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
An interview by Justin Hopper with artist Kirsty Badenoch and writer Tom Jeffreys.
Kirsty and Tom have an exhibition 9-12 November at Staffordshire Street Gallery in Peckham, London, UK, featuring new work made in the remaining patches of boreal forest in northern Scotland.
For information on the exhibition, visit Staffordshire St's website.
Kirsty Badenoch and Tom Jeffreys each have a site, too, which will help you find out more about the artists book that accompanies the exhibition.
The music in this episode is the track Unnamed Unseen from Memory Islands, a highly recommended new album by violinist Ellie Wilson.
Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack - it's free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram.
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
An interview by Justin Hopper with Frances Castle of Clay Pipe Music.
Frances Castle is a London-based artist, illustrator and musician who operates Clay Pipe Music, a record label producing beautiful landscape-inspired LPs and CDs of music combining folk, electronica and hauntological themes.
Clay Pipe's website is http://www.claypipemusic.co.uk/
Frances's own site is https://www.francescastle.com/
This episode includes partial and full tracks from a number of Clay Pipe artists including Frances's own The Hardy Tree. They are all available here from Clay Pipe's Greedbag page. In order of appearance: